Justice and security in the accommodation of minority nationalism

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511489235.008

7 - Justice and security in the accommodation of minority nationalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009

Edited by

Tariq Modood and

Will Kymlicka: Affiliation:
Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy Department of Philosophy, Queen's University Ontario; Professor in the Nationalism Studies program Central European University in Budapest
Stephen May: Affiliation:
University of Waikato, New Zealand
Tariq Modood: Affiliation:
University of Bristol
Judith Squires: Affiliation:
University of Bristol

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Minority nationalism is a universal phenomenon. As Walker Connor notes, countries affected by it

are to be found in Africa (for example, Ethiopia), Asia (Sri Lanka), Eastern Europe (Romania), Western Europe (France), North America (Guatemala), South America (Guyana), and Oceania (New Zealand). The list includes countries that are old (United Kingdom) as well as new (Bangladesh), large (Indonesia) as well as small (Fiji), rich (Canada) as well as poor (Pakistan), authoritarian (Sudan) as well as democratic (Belgium), Marxist-Leninist (China) as well as militantly anti-Marxist (Turkey). The list also includes countries which are Buddhist (Burma), Christian (Spain), Moslem (Iran), Hindu (India), and Judaic (Israel).

(Connor 1999: 163–64)

In all of these countries, national minorities are battling with the state – peacefully or violently – over issues of political representation, language rights, self-government, control over resources, and internal migration.

While the challenge of minority nationalism arises in all parts of the globe, the state's response to it varies tremendously from region to region. In this chapter, I want to compare the accommodation of minority nationalism in two regions: the Western democracies and the postcommunist countries of Eastern and Central Europe (hereafter ECE). The response to minority nationalism in these two regions is very different. To over simplify, we can say that in the West, there is a trend toward accepting the legitimacy of minority nationalism, and toward accommodating it through some form of territorial autonomy.

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Information: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Minority Rights , pp. 144 - 175

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489235.008 [Opens in a new window]

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